On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Matthew Thode
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Originally virtualization was slow on grsec/pax with either uderef or
> kernexec enabled.

My impression was that UDEREF/KERNEXEC were slow in guest. Is it
wrong, or did these settings affect host as well?

> Pipacs overcame this limitation in 3.5.4-r1 and
> overcame a memory commit issue kvm was having in 3.5.4-r2.  He overcame
> it using nested page tables on newer CPUs, which means older CPUs will
> likely still be slow.

So one needs at least 3.5.4-r2 in both hardened guest and host, and
nested page tables support in CPU?

-- 
Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

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